Monday, February 4, 2013

Life is a Ken Burns Documentary - A New Song

My first new song in two years. There are a lot of lines that I wrote here which I could barely stand to put on paper. Is it better than most of the shit that passes for music which people listen to? Absolutely. Is it any good? Absolutely not :).Also... somehow the chord changes didn't make it through the cut and paste. I'll work on that later.

And when the house was burned to dust and to its embers ground, The birth of new life comes and it experiences its first sound. And though we infants titans see ourselves through mirrors long, We break the mirrors with our fists to hear the loser’s song, And though the loser’s victory march proclaims its endless reign, The victory goes by accident to fortune’s fools for gain. And fortune’s fools have no excuse for why fate cares for them, they play their roles and kiss the ring while others they condemn. They tell their myths for why is why and flog their charge for all, We see it yet we turn our heads cuz Life’s...A Ken Burns Documentary: …It’s long, … it’s slow,... there’s endless things to learn... Life’s a grey old man who’s seen all wars and tells you shit you don’t wanna know... He rambles, he forgets, he lies,... and his lies are duller than truth,... And when he’s done with you he hopes your soul has ...pissed away its youth. … ...When teachers want to slight their jobs theyput the TV on, They let the screen talk at the class while mentally they’re gone. The shit they shove into our minds is full of noxious smells, But we don’t listen anyway except for classroom bells, And when the bell tolls through the halls the dead come back to life, To keep our learning poor we’d learn to live with endless strife. The screens of class are traded in for screens of home and car, In place of desks are couches soft and sleep with dreams afar, But when we’re in the car we fall asleep with wheels alive, The car drives us and takes us where it wills...(G.P.)

cuz life’s a Ken Burns Documentary

It’s smart,... it’s vast,enthusiasm yes it has. It’s one-man war combats our well-earned mantra... … ignorance is bliss... It’s bloated,... it’s bombastic,... it pretends like itastounds... And allthroughout the show there’s the nagging thought that it’s... ...not as important as it sounds...... It tells us to respect the institutions that we’re in. It conjures pasts of people greater than we’ve ever been. It makes us feel inferior to the history that we owe, And tells us that our best days never happened to us so... We sit in reverential awe for things we really hate, And people who exploit our faith in living all too late, It points out all the pratfalls of forgetting what’s been done, And makes us pay an homage to the hangman and the gun, It makes us terrified we can’t break out from hist’ry’s snare, we’re just as bad as them, another way, we’d never dare. And when we wreck the world that people after us will live. The ruins we’ll dress up so kids can watch...(G.P.)